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John Alexander Logan Family
A Register of Its Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Dan Gillam and Joseph Thomas
Revised by Patrick Kerwin
1999
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2001
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Table of Contents for John Alexander Logan Family
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms
* Names:
* Subjects:
* Occupations:
Administrative Information
* Provenance:
* Processing History:
* Transfers:
* Copyright Status:
* Preferred Citation:
Biographical Notes
* John Alexander Logan
* Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan
Scope and Content Note
Description of Series
* General Correspondence, 1836- 1925, n.d.
* Family Correspondence, 1847- 1922, n.d.
* Subject File.
* Speech, Article, and Book File, 1857- 1915, n.d.
* Scrapbooks, 1859- 1917, n.d.
* Miscellany.
* Oversize.
Container List
* GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1836- 1925, n.d.
* FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1847- 1922, n.d.
* SUBJECT FILE
* SPEECH, ARTICLE, AND BOOK FILE, 1857- 1915, n.d.
* SCRAPBOOKS, 1859- 1917, n.d.
* MISCELLANY
* OVERSIZE
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Collection Summary
Creator: Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886
Title: John Alexander Logan Family Papers1836-1925 (bulk 1860-1917)
Size: 46,000 items; 145 containers plus 29 oversize; 61.6 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Chiefly papers of John Alexander Logan (1826-1886), Union Army
officer and U.S. senator and representative from Illinois; and of his wife,
Mary Simmerson (Cunningham) Logan (1838-1923), author. Correspondence,
legal and military papers, drafts of speeches, articles, and books,
scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to the
military, political, and social history of the Civil War and postwar
periods.
Selected Search Terms
Names:
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912--Correspondence
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 -Correspondence
Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940--Correspondence
Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916--Correspondence
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Correspondence
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926--Correspondence
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Sherman, John, 1823-1900--Correspondence
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891--Correspondence
Logan family
United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
American Association of the Red Cross
Grand Army of the Republic
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923. Papers
Logan, John Alexander, 1865-1899. Papers
Tucker, George Edwin. Papers
Tucker, Mary Logan, b. 1860 or 1. Papers
Subjects:
Elections--United States--1884
Exhibitions--Illinois
Impeachments
Memorial Day
Reconstruction
Veterans--United States--Societies, etc.
Women--Suffrage
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Belgium
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans
Occupations:
Army officers
Representatives, U.S. Congress--Illinois
Senators, U.S. Congress--Illinois
Administrative Information
Provenance:
The papers of the John Alexander Logan family, including John Alexander
Logan (1826-1886), army officer and United States senator and
representative from Illinois, were deposited in the Library of Congress by
Mary Logan Tucker and John A. Logan III in 1925, 1931, and 1941. In 1952
all deposits were converted to gift by John A. Logan III.
Processing History:
The John Alexander Logan family papers were arranged and described in 1963.
This register was revised in 1999.
Transfers:
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial
divisions of the Library. Photographic material has been transferred to the
Prints and Photographs Division. Some maps have been transferred to the
Geography and Map Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions
as part of the John Alexander Logan Family Papers.
Copyright Status:
Copyright in the unpublished writings of the John Alexander Logan family in
these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the
Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: container number, John Alexander Logan Family Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Notes
John Alexander Logan
Date Event
1826 , Feb.
9 Born, Jackson County, Ill.
1846 - 1848 Lieutenant, United States Army
1851 Began law practice
1852 Elected to Illinois legislature
1855 Married Mary S. Cunningham
1858 Elected to Congress as representative from the eleventh
Illinois district
1861 Colonel, Thirty First Illinois Regiment
1862 - 1865 General, United States Army
1866 - 1870 Representative-at-large from Illinois, United States
Congress
1868 Conceived idea of Memorial Day
1871 - 1877
, 1879 - United States senator from Illinois
1886
1884 Vice presidential candidate on Republican ticket with James
G. Blaine
1886 , Dec.
26 Died, Washington, D.C.
Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan
Date Event
1838 , Aug.
15 Born, Petersburg, Mo.
1855 Married John A. Logan
1886 - 1923 Editor and author
1923 , Feb.
22 Died, Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content Note
The John Alexander Logan Family Papers span the years 1836-1925, with the
bulk of the material originating between 1860 and 1917. Most of the items
pertain to the lives and activities of John Alexander Logan and his wife
Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan. Material relating to Mary Logan Tucker,
George Edwin Tucker, John Alexander Logan, Jr., and other family members is
also present. The collection is organized in seven series, General
Correspondence; Family Correspondence; Subject File; Speech, Article, and
Book File; Scrapbooks; Miscellany and Oversize and includes correspondence,
legal and military papers, speeches, articles, drafts of books, plays,
poetry, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, photographs, printed matter, and
miscellaneous material.
Topics reflected in the collection include the Civil War, Reconstruction,
the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the presidential campaigns of 1880 and
1884, Memorial Day, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the
District of Columbia Belgian Relief Fund, the World's Columbian Exposition,
the Spanish-American Red Cross, and woman's suffrage.
Principal correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, William
Jennings Bryan, George B. Cortelyou, Grenville Mellen Dodge, Ulysses S.
Grant, Robert Todd Lincoln, John Sherman, and William T. Sherman .
Description of Series
Box Series
BOX General Correspondence, 1836 - 1925 , n.d.
1-31
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX Family Correspondence, 1847 - 1922 , n.d.
32-40
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX Subject File.
41-50
Correspondence, reports, legal and military papers, memoranda,
memorabilia, printed matter, and miscellaneous items.
Grouped by type of material but otherwise unarranged.
BOX Speech, Article, and Book File, 1857 - 1915 , n.d.
51-90
Speeches, articles, books, plays, poetry, and miscellaneous
writings. Grouped by name of author and therein by type of
material.
Arranged chronologically or alphabetically in part.
BOX Scrapbooks, 1859 - 1917 , n.d.
91-139
Newspaper clippings, memorabilia, correspondence, and
miscellaneous matter.
Grouped by name of author and therein chronologically by volume.
BOX Miscellany.
140-145
Biographical material, notebooks, memorabilia, printed matter,
and miscellaneous papers.
Grouped by type of material but otherwise unarranged.
BOX OV Oversize.
1-OV 29
Bound volumes containing military orders, letters, maps, and
reports of engagements and scrapbooks containing clippings,
memorabilia, correspondence, and other material.
Organized and described according to the series from which they
were removed.
Container List
Box Contents
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1836 - 1925 , n.d.
BOX 1 Logan, John Alexander
Originals
1836-1865
BOX 2 1866-1879
BOX 3 1880-1883
BOX 4 1884
BOX 5 1885-1888, n.d.
Photographic reproductions, 1864-1884
BOX 6 Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham
Nov. 1855-Feb. 1887
BOX 7 Mar. 1887-Nov. 1888
BOX 8 Jan.-Dec. 1889
BOX 9 Jan.-Dec. 1890
BOX 10 Jan.-Dec. 1891
BOX 11 Jan.-Dec. 1892
BOX 12 Jan. 1893-Mar. 1895
BOX 13 Apr. 1895-Dec. 1900
BOX 14 Jan. 1901-Apr. 1903
BOX 15 May 1903-May 1904
BOX 16 June 1904-Dec. 1905
BOX 17 Jan. 1906-Dec. 1907
BOX 18 Jan. 1908-Dec. 1909
BOX 19 Jan. 1910-June 1911
BOX 20 July 1911-Mar. 1912
BOX 21 Apr.-Dec. 1912
BOX 22 Jan.-Dec. 1913
BOX 23 Jan. 1914-Dec. 1915
BOX 24 Jan. 1916-Feb. 1923
BOX 25 Hearst Syndicate, 1901-1907
BOX 26 Cosmopolitan, 1912-1914
BOX 27 Tucker, Mary Logan, 1881-1925
Miscellaneous, fragmentary, n.d.
BOX 28-31 Miscellany, n.d.
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1847 - 1922 , n.d.
BOX 32 1847-1860
BOX 33 1861-1872
BOX 34 1873-1879
BOX 35 1880-1886
BOX 36 1887-1893
BOX 37 1894-1900
BOX 38 1901-1913
BOX 39 1914-1922, n.d.
BOX 40 Undated
SUBJECT FILE
BOX 41 District of Columbia Belgian Relief Fund
BOX 42 Grand Army of the Republic
Legal papers
BOX 43 Legal papers
BOX 44-49 Military papers See also Oversize
BOX 50 Society of the Army of Tennessee
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.
SPEECH, ARTICLE, AND BOOK FILE, 1857 - 1915 , n.d.
BOX 51 Logan, John Alexander
Speeches
1857, Governor William Henry Bissell's
inaugural
1863, Great Union speech
1866, claims of the two parties
1868
Against bond subsidies to the
eastern division of the Pacific
Railroad
Principles of the Democratic party
Treasury Department, Printing Bureau
1869
Tenure of office
To students of Southern Illinois
College, Carbondale, Ill.
1870
Belligerence of Cuba
Decoration of Union soldiers' graves
Independence of Cuba
Reduction of army
Removal of capital
1872
Credit Mobilier
Fairbury, Ill.
1873, Election of Alexander Caldwell
1874
Currency-specie payments
Finance
1876, Indian affairs
1878, agricultural address
1880
Democratic party
Eulogy for Zachariah Chandler
Presidential campaign
BOX 52 Public lands
1881, personal explanation
1883, Fitz-John Porter case
1884, Masonic Hall, Washington, D.C.
1886
Grant, Ulysses S.
Issues of the day
Proposed Ohio senatorial
investigation
Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.
Undated
Abraham Lincoln
Beginnings of a new epoch in
American politics
Civil service
Death of General George H. Thomas
Declining position of presiding
officer of U.S. Senate
Decoration Day
BOX 53 Independence Day
Memorial Day
Reconstruction of the Southern
states
Senatorial interference
Sovereignty of the nation
What our army wants
BOX 54-57 Miscellany
BOX 58 Books, drafts
Uncle Daniel's Story: Or Tom Anderson and
the Great Conspiracy, 1885
BOX 59 The Great Conspiracy, 1886
BOX 60 The Volunteer Soldier of America, 1887
BOX 61 Life and Services of General John A. Logan,
1887
Plays, drafts
"The Narrow Escape," 1875
"Our Boarding House," n.d.
BOX 62-63 Military reminiscences and miscellaneous writings
BOX 64 Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham
Speeches
BOX 65-75 Articles
Bound, 1888-1915, n.d.
BOX 76-81 Unbound
BOX 82-84 Books, drafts
The Part Taken by Women in American History
1912
BOX 85 1912
Reminiscences of a Soldiers Wife
1913
BOX 86 1913
Story of My Life
Undated
BOX 87 Undated
BOX 88-90 Personal Recollections
Ladies of the White House
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution
Twelve Masterpieces of Christian Art
Poetry
SCRAPBOOKS, 1859 - 1917 , n.d.
BOX 91-101 Logan, John Alexander, 1859-1887 See also Oversize
BOX 102-109 Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham, 1861-1917
Spanish-American War See also Oversize
BOX 110-129 General See also Oversize
BOX 130-132 Logan, John Alexander, Jr., 1894-1905
BOX 133 Tucker, George E., 1888-1903 See also Oversize
BOX 134-138 Tucker, Mary Logan, 1867-1917, n.d. See also Oversize
BOX 139 Logan family, 1871-1915
MISCELLANY
BOX 140 Appointment as minister to Mexico
Barton, Clara
Biographical material
Calumet Place, Washington, D.C.
BOX 141 Greeting cards, calling cards, and invitations
BOX 142-143 Memorabilia and notebooks
BOX 144 Miscellaneous papers
BOX 145 Printed matter
OVERSIZE
BOX OV 1-OV 3 Subject file
Military papers (Container 44)
BOX OV 4-OV 10 Scrapbooks
Logan, John Alexander (Container 91)
BOX OV 11 Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham
Spanish-American War (Container 102)
BOX OV 12-OV 22 General (Container 110)
BOX OV 23-OV 24 Tucker, George E. (Container 133)
BOX OV 25-OV 29 Tucker, Mary Logan (Container 134)
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